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The Director supports new and ongoing initiatives through project planning, data analysis, research, stakeholder coordination, and presentations. The role leads external policy and programmatic collaborations with public and higher education partners and helps advance policy interests with policymakers and agencies. It also builds strategic relationships to secure funding, monitors policy and research trends, responds to information requests, and briefs leadership and stakeholders on policy changes.
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Full job description
Supports successful implementation of all new and ongoing initiatives through project planning and management, data gathering and analysis, conducting research, coordinating stakeholder meetings, and preparing and delivering presentations to internal and external audiences. Serves as the lead on external policy and programmatic collaborations across public education and higher education partners.Collaboratively develops and implements a strategic plan to represent and advance policy interests with local, state, and federal policymakers and agencies. Works to identify and build strategic relationships to advance priorities including securing funding from philanthropic and governmental partners.Monitors, tracks, and analyzes policy impacting initiatives and operations, including the education and research missions. Promptly responds to requests for information from institutional and program constituents regarding activities and operations. Monitors and analyzes state, national and international public and higher education research and policy trends, including educational pathways. Informs and effectively communicates with policymakers about the local, state, and national importance and impact of programmatic offerings and institutional research. Briefs unit and university leadership and stakeholders on policy changes.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,042 open Program Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$145–150K/yr39 salary ranges
- US median$20–22/hr59 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 101 open Program Director jobs in Texas and 1,042 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)14 open
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- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON5 open
- Experience
- Program Director postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 10 years (752 postings).
- Education
- 538 of the 1,042 open Program Director jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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